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Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded 1967 in West Berlin, Germany, by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only conti (More...)

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Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded 1967 in West Berlin, Germany, by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member. Drummer and composer Klaus Schulze was briefly a member of an early lineup, but the most stable version of the group, during their influential mid-1970s period, was as a keyboard trio with Froese, Christopher Franke, and Peter Baumann. Early in the 1980s, Johannes Schmoelling replaced Baumann, and this lineup, too, was stable and extremely productive.
As of 2009, Tangerine Dream is comprised of Edgar Froese and Thorsten Quaeschning. For concerts and recordings they are joined mainly by Iris Camaa, Linda Spa and Bernhard Beibl.
Tangerine Dream's early "Pink Years" albums had a pivotal role in the development of krautrock. Their "Virgin Years" and later albums became a defining influence in the genre known as new age music, although the band themselves dislike the term.
Tangerine Dream’s music was first featured in Sorcerer, a William Friedkin film, and later in the Tom Cruise movie, Risky Business.
Their track, "Le Parc" was also featured on the TV Series, "Street Hawk."
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